MONEY AND MOUTHS

     Put your money where your mouth is. Talk to the issue (crude translation from Yiddish). And I am sure there are many other maxims that say the same thing. It matters not what one supposedly says unless there is also action taken.
     So might that not apply to Trump as well? After all, he tweets up a storm on a regular basis and is quite often the threat maker of the year yet still, he does not always follow through. Correct? Nope. While he has not, for example, fired Mueller or had him fired by another, one of his underlings, he has done so in many other cases so the man does put his money where his mouth is. The problem is that his mouth is so often all over the place and never seemingly in the same place on the same matter, that confuses some. But no bones about it, this man is out to remake the world, remake the presidency, in his own image and he could care less who goes down as he continues on in this perverted quest - even the entire country.
     So who needs to put money and mouths together? Our oh so esteemed Republican representatives. Oh, now some seem to be coming out openly on the issue and stating that he has gone a step too far in his personal war on Mueller. And yet, and yet, while there are two bipartisan bills waiting there to protect Mueller - and by the way, protect our democracy - there they sit , the bills and the people. Money and mouths, people. Money and mouths.
     I just have this delicious dream that there will be a flying squad of agents sent to the White House to arrest and confine this man. The world cheers as we do this. Pence is forewarned that any similar behavior on his part will result in replacement as well. People begin to regain their morals, their souls and their independent mouths. Cooperation is once again a positive tool. The immigration issue is spoken about in a rational manner and a plan is laid down, a fair one, a hopeful one. We restore our relationships with our allies and put our enemies back on notice. Sweet dream - but then I awaken to reality and it is the same old same old. Rats!!
     But there is hope and it comes from the strangest place - a former porn star who has gathered her courage to the sticking point and continuing to pursue justice for herself, to point out the inequities of the treatment meted out to other sexual harassers and molesters and why not Trump? Why not!!! The latest analysis of this whole case points out that this could be a major point for Mueller and a disaster for Trump. Justice is as justice does and I await it with bated breath.
Ahhhh.
     In the meanwhile, the madman in the White House, our so not national pride, continues to pursue his irrational ways, firing lawyers, bringing on others, including one weirdo who pushes conspiracies on TV and in the media, and hopefully, will not be emboldened enough to fire Mueller for then there truly is a crisis and for that crisis to be understood, just read yesterday's blog.
     And in the meanwhile, this whole thing is proving to have more and more hidden away and all is coming up, not so much in roses, but in rank smelling weeds. The market tanked ! Majorly, or should I say bigly. Facebook is caught in a mess tied up with Trump and his campaign and more of their dirty tricks, violations of privacy and never mind their shouts of no collusion and witch hunt. The man doth protest too much, methinks! And so does the world and so does the market. And forthcoming trade war, should this ridiculous and dangerous tariff go into operation, will truly kill the economy and then what? Then a , not a recession, but a Depression, one to rival the Great Depression and the stories of my mother and father, of history books, of films, brings horror to my mind. Not again. Please. We must act before that happens.
     There is an expression in Hebrew that one can be "off the derech", or path, meaning the proper path thru life. It might be debated as to exact and correct meaning and application, but in this instance in the secular world, we are certainly far off that derech and we must get back on track, the moral one, the democratic one, the caring and humane one, the world of talk and diplomacy, the world of justice or attempts to reach justice. A world we  can live in and make better for our kids.
     The man's got plenty of mouth and plenty of money. Can we align them properly? Please? Oh, where is that sweet dream of mine?